22
Oct
EPIC Health Systems in conjunction with the School of Dentistry and Oral Health
MHIQ WorkshopDr Murthy Mittinty will cover traditional approaches to mediation such as product and difference methods and introduce the latest developments such as counterfactual approach.
17
Oct
MHIQ Program Workshop - EPIC Health Systems Centre for Applied Health Economics - Technology is not a substitute for thinking
MHIQ Program Workshop - EPIC Health SystemsIn this workshop, Dr Modecki will share a series of approaches that can move substantive questions to a broader level of analysis. In tandem with her co-author, Assoc Prof Sama Low-Choy, they will describe multiverse analyses, null simulations (e.g. specification curve analyses), and predictive residuals as options for providing a meta-look at scientific questions.
14
Oct
MHIQ Statistics Workshop: Introduction to Biostatistics with Professor Robert Ware
MHIQ Statisticas WorkshopProfessor Robert Ware will provide an introduction to biostatistics. Topics included covered will be sampling, common families of distributions, sampling variability, and statistical inference including estimation, confidence-intervals, and hypothesis testing. The session is aimed at HDR students and early career researchers.
11
Oct
Griffith Asia Institute State of the Neighbourhood Report 2019
Join us at CEDA's annual event The Neighbourhood Forum where the Griffith Asia Institute is launching the 2019 State of the Neighbourhood report. The report engages business and industry leaders in the key themes and dynamics underpinning Australia and Queensland's strategic positioning within the Asia-Pacific region. The report provides an opportunity to recast some of Australia's key foreign, economic and development issues from a distinctively Queensland perspective.
11
Oct
MHIQ Program Seminar Series EPIC Health Systems CAHE - Income Inequality, Community Infrastructure and Individual Stressors
MHIQ Program Seminar Series EPIC Health Systems (CAHE)In this presentation Assoc Professor Mahadevan considers the impact of variables at three different levels - city, community and individual - on the older adults' mental health in China. Evidence shows that community factors such as infrastructure and elderly centres are critical to improve mental health. However the effect of city-level factors is different for the segments of poor and non-poor.
10
Oct
MHIQ Program Seminar Series Disability & Rehabilitation GCORE - New ways to look at muscle mechanics
MHIQ Program Seminar Series Disability & Rehabilitation GCOREAssoc Professor Justin Fernandez will discuss efforts to encapsulate traditional continuum muscle mechanics models with machine learning for rapid prediction and translation to the clinic. Secondly, I will discuss an alternative mechanics-based method to estimate muscle fibre directions compared to diffusion tensor imaging. Both studies will be presented with a focus on the gastrocnemius.